Clara Reeve by hargrave, Leonie

Light shelfwear to edges and boards. DJ protected with mylar. Pages tight and clean. Library discard with usual marks and attachments. Pocket removed. 442 pages. HardCover Binding. Year: 1975. ISBN: 0394484908. From its opening moments in Highgate Cemetery in the London of 1850 to its horrifying and apocalyptic resolution high on the slopes of Vesuvius, this dazzling and diabolical nonpareil of a novel ensnares us in the labyrinthine mysteries involving two branches of a great family, a fatal marriage, and a crucial inheritance. Here in all their glory are the magnificent obsessions-passion and jealousy, money and property, rank and power-that we demand from the great, exuberant extravaganzas of high nineteenth-century fiction...and here, most of all, is an enchantingly wise, innocent, solemn, captivating-and endangered-heroine, Clara Reeve.